ABL 1036 (P334689)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1036 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334689 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the kin]g of (all) lands, our lord: [your servants] the recruitment officers [responsible for horse]s. Good health [to the king], ou[r lord]! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | As to what the king our lord [wrote to us]: "Man[y ......" |
| Reverse [3:8] r 4'4'– | ......] our [work ......] what[ever ...] it be [... we shall not be ne]gligent, the watch [... will be st]rict. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR.KUR EN-i-ni | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ-ka {lu₂v]}mu-šar-ki-sa-a-ni | |
| 3 | [ša {anše}KUR.RA]-MEŠ\t lu-u DI-mu | |
| 4 | [a-na LUGAL EN-i]-⸢ni⸣ ša\yd LUGAL EN-in-ni | |
| 5 | [iš-pur-an-na-ši]-ni ma-a | |
| 6 | [x x x x ma]-aʾ-du-u-te | |
| 7 | [x x x x x]+⸢x x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢i⸣-ni | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-ni | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x] ki-i | |
| 4' | [x x x x x dul]-⸢li⸣-in-ni | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-⸢ši⸣-i-ni | |
| 6' | [x x x x x ši]-⸢ti\t⸣-i-ni | |
| r.e. | ||
| 7 | [x x x la ni-ši]-⸢ia⸣-ṭa ma-ṣar-tu₂ | |
| 8 | [x x x dan]-⸢na⸣-at | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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